"Boredom is the desire for happiness left in its pure state."-Giacomo Leopardi"Something that would reduce or enhance the feeling of boredom." - "We're not bored." "We're not capable of it."-Maurice Blanchot

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Haditha Friedman

Lest it need be said, Haditha is not an abberation. Only let's remember too, the folks who helped put us there. If one only ever reads five things about Thomas Friedman, hack, let four of them be these (please click).

This bout of profoundly transformative netroots activism brought on by experiences mentioned in the post updated, below. Or maybe it was learning of Iraq's My Lai (here's Murtha one and two; and here's something even more honest). Or was it Afghanistan's My Lai. Whatever that means. (We cite it precisely because we don't yet know.)

One thing we do know: a lot of people once quit the military because of (perceived) anti-soldier sentiment. They went on to live longer, more complicated lives.